Update on UFO 2!

Hi all,

I just got the following e-mail from Helen Weber:

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I just got permission from Ed to tell you this and pass it along if
you see fit. He just got a message from Philip Moffet and Philip
says he just got back from a very successful trip to L.A. and the
people he met there remember UFO and are enthusiastic about working
on UFO 2. He also says Carlton's closer to selling him the rights
and Gerry's looking forward to working on UFO 2.
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Marc Martin, [hidden email]

Hi Everybody!!!! <waving>
Marc says:
YIIIIPPEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!

That's worth getting out of lurking mode:-D

I wonder who they're going to get to play Miss Ealand? I want that job!
I'll be perfect for it! Miss Ealand is my idol.


Susan
[hidden email]

As any GA fan would say FAB!
Great news, and this may only be the begining.

Steve Christensen



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--- In SHADO@y..., "Hemmings, R.K." <rkh@l...> wrote:
> Excellent news, especially the fact that Carlton seem
> to be moving on the rights issues - without which, any
> UFO:2 is as doomed as a spinner crossing 'dead-eye'
> Carlin's ..
KERPLOP!

Any ideas on who some of the characters may be, outside
of General Straker?

This is the greatest news I have heard in a long while! What a great
first post to see here! Just one question though. Are they going to
follow the original UFO 2 format submitted in 1996 and keep the style
and most of the hardware (including the UFO's!) the same? I hope
much of it stays on earth as before and doesnt center on the moon as
was going to be the case in 1973! Please keep us posted!

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--- Amelia wrote:
>
> And Christian, now I have absolutely no bewilderment about why
> Straker reacted, Roper killed his car, it all makes sense now
> (chuckle)
>
> Amelia ; - )

Yes, and now it makes sense why Straker has sent him alone on a
suicide mission (instead of sending a couple of armed men out) and
why Roper was not allowed to use a Moonmobile and has to go on foot
the whole way: REVENGE FOR HIS DEMOLISHED CAR!!! ;-))

Thinking again on Straker's reaction when he was told about the
car crash, maybe he thought at this moment: "Why? Why have I lent him
my car? 'I have an eye on it!' he said. 'Thirty years without an
accident.' he said. 'No worry, I would rather kill myself!' were his
words. So THAT'S what he meant when he talked about a 'crash course'!
I am such a stupid *****.... Now wait, Roper, if you've survived you
will pay for this! I'll send you on the next suicide mission
available... and if there isn't one I'll create one for you...."

It just makes more and more sense... :-))

CU Christian ;-)

Amelia wrote:
>
> I have a question, not about the film, but about Mindbender. In one
> of my FAB magazines it says Mindbender wasn't shown because one of
> the actors didn't like his performance. Any idea who that was? I'd
> seriously doubt that it was Ed, my guess would be Mike Billington,
> but even that doesn't make sense.

Not according to him. From what I know, Mike's favorite episodes are
"Kill Straker", "Mindbender", and "Reflections in the Water"

Sister T.
Boston Cacophony Society
(You may already be a member!!!)

Thanks, Sister T. for correcting the view on Mike B. regarding Mindbender. I
think he'd be much too professional for that kind of thing. In regards to
Mindbender not not being shown, I recall seeing it yrs ago when the series
first aired here in Atl Canada. There are any number of reasons why eps are
not shown from various series. For instance, there is an eps which is rarely
ever shown these days from the original Twilight Zone. It concerns WWII and
the Japanese, and stars George Takai in a prominent pre-Star Trek role. It
is rarely shown today because it depicts an attitude considered today as
racist towards the Japanese. This sort of thing is similar to saying George
Sewell got the axe with UFO because of his complexion! Pam
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>From: [hidden email]
>To: [hidden email]
>Subject: [SHADO] Re: Update on UFO 2!
>Date: Tue, Feb 13, 2001, 10:52 AM
>

[hidden email] wrote:

> (g) I'd keep the television format, however I'd bring the year up to date,
> I'd assume the aliens that were a threat back in the 1980's were already
> wiped out, by a superior, more lethal alien enemy who sees Earth as fair
> game, and is far less calculated about how and when they attack. I'd go from
> the idea of wanting human organs, to colonization.

I don't think that would be a great idea. The colonisation idea was
already a bit overdone in science fiction (sorry, can't get the accented
'e' on my laptop keyboard) when the first UFO series was made at
the end of the '60s.

Pam wrote (about a Twilight Zone ep):

> It is rarely shown today because it depicts an attitude considered
> today as racist towards the Japanese. This sort of thing is similar to
> saying George Sewell got the axe with UFO because of his complexion!
>

There's an original series Star Trek episode which has only very rarely
been shown in the UK because of a scene with bizarre S&M connotations!

James

[hidden email] wrote:

> I'd keep the television format, however I'd bring the year up to date,
> I'd assume the aliens that were a threat back in the 1980's were already
> wiped out, by a superior, more lethal alien enemy who sees Earth as fair
> game, and is far less calculated about how and when they attack. I'd go from
> the idea of wanting human organs, to colonization.

James Gibbon <[hidden email]> answered:-
> I don't think that would be a great idea. The colonisation idea was already a bit
> overdone in science fiction ... when the first UFO series was made at the end of
> the '60s.

With different aliens as well as different active SHADO crew the scenario
would be very different. Perhaps let some of the UFO 1 aliens take refuge on
Earth and they help SHADO.

Or see http://www.buckrogers.demon.co.uk/ufo/end.txt and
http://www.buckrogers.demon.co.uk/ufo/end2.txt for another possible follow-up
scenario :: the UFO 1 aliens land in public but don't take over.